It looked like he said out of a combination of social awkwardness and trying to impress the Obamas. HE SHOULD BE GOOD AT MEETING PEOPLE BY NOW!
If Obama thinks bad of us because of this then I'm not renewing my subscription to the Royal Family or whatever we're supposed to do.

Obama said he met Brown, the Chinese, the Russians and Cameron. So it was just a really, really, really bad joke. He would've been better off being racist. I dunno how people thought he was talking about the Koreans and Japanese too.